Tuesday, 24 February 2015

FLIERS FLOWERS AND SHOWERS.

DEVILS COACH HORSE-a very early specimen at the Hoe last week.

This fearsome looking creature is more normally seen in late summer.

BELGIAN NAVY FRIGATE-F930 LEOPOLD 1.
A walk on the cliffs to St Margarets on Sunday found the Raven in cronking good form,Fulmar Petrels wheeling away never quite making that elusive landing on their chosen cliff ledge and skylarks in good voice in the breezy sunshine.

RAVEN

FULMAR PETREL

SKYLARK IN FULL VOICE.

At Samphire Hoe today:-

COLTSFOOT always a welcome sight as one of the harbingers of spring.

After a clear sunny morning the afternoon turned a little cloudy with the odd shower providing some dramatic seascapes at Samphire Hoe.

DUNGENESS UNDER A HEAVY SHOWER.
Venus and Mars are visible in the west after sunset at the moment my shaky effort shows how red Mars appears.

VENUS AND MARS IN CONJUNCTION looking a bit shaky,but I quite like this effect,more than the one below

Followers

About Me

born and bred in Dover, educated at Dover grammar school, early interest in all sports , nature and steam trains. I lived very close to the railway line at Tower Hamlets. On leaving school I found a career in local govt as a building inspector working at Dover, Ashford and Shepway councils, retiring after forty years service in 2006. I played football in the kent amateur league for crabble athletic, cricket for dover cosmopolitans, and late in life discovered the joys of rugby playing for Dovers lower sides into my forties.
I have two sons Colin and Philip[packet]and am in a relationship with Cathy.
Birdwatching began seriously in my late teens when Spud Taylor introduced me to the song of the willow warbler , terns at sandwich bay, redshanks and snipe at stodmarsh and shelduck at nagden and apart from when rugby became all consuming I have been a birder ever since. Since retiring I have spent most of my time wandering around East Kent watching and now photographing birds and butterflies. I am a volunteer ranger at Samphire
Hoe on a tuesday where my claim to fame is finding a hoopoe in august 2009.